All the world really needs is a power supply that has no fuel costs, no pollution, and is available to everyone, everywhere, and relatively all at once. There is a technology which makes this possible today.

The recent Blackout on the East Coast may have been the best thing to ever
happen. In those darkened homes and office buildings, as computers and servers
went down 50 million energy consumers came face to face with the most
fundamental question of our industrial society: where does our energy come from?

As experts and pundits talk about supply and demand, what they are really
missing is the unequivocal fact that you must buy electricity from someone else.
We have power plants and transmission lines, but what we also have is an
electrical power system that's based on the assumed fact that you have to buy
electricity from some third party: a utility.

Solar Versus Utility Costs

It's certainly true that for the last one hundred years if you wanted to use
electricity you must buy it as any other commodity, but now in the 21st century
everything has changed. Remember the first computers? Centralized and only
accessible over wires, now computers are "personal" and are totally
decentralized. These distributed processors such as PCs, PDAs and cell phones
demonstrate that it makes more sense to do the processing "on-site"
where and when you need it, than to source it from some distant centralized
location. The same is true of energy.

For the last three centuries our industrial society could be described as the
"Hydrocarbon Man" as carbon fueled our industrial growth. As with
Information Technologies, the powerful logic of producing power where you need
it will follow suit as we become the "Silicon Man".

Solar energy drives the entire natural world. Why not the industrial world?
Using today's proven Solar Photovoltaic (PV) technology, based on the same
silicon wafers used in the electronics industry, electricity can be produced in
industrial quantities where it is consumed, in effect, the grid which is a
costly and vulnerable anachronism becomes an obsolete idea. Solar produced
electricity consumed at site, fed directly into today's grid (turning your
electric meter backward), or stored in batteries for night time use, allows
these distributed sources of solar power to not only produce useful electricity,
but do so with no fuel costs, no pollution, no effect on global warming and in
such a way as to greatly reduce our trade deficit with other nations (by not
buying high priced imported fossil fuels) so that we as a nation have more of
our national wealth available to improve our nation and to utilize for our
benefit. This would not only eliminate, by definition, any future blackouts, it
would lower real costs because you only pay for the hardware once.

Most people today pay monthly electric bills, and 10 years from now will also
be paying electric bills. What will be the price of electricity ten years from
now? No one knows, but with a solar and wind system you know exactly what your
cost of electricity will be. Since no one bills you for the sun and wind, you
only pay for the hardware once, and periodic maintenance. The advantages for our
economy are staggering.

Solar and wind systems used together are today routinely used in remote sites
because they require no fuel supply (other than exposure to nature), and produce
no toxicity and are chosen for their reliability. Working for decades with
proper maintenance every home and office building can be equipped with properly
sized solar and/or wind systems that provide clean, reliable, and dependable
energy for decades.

Clean Energy Technologies for Everyday Life

Whether you're powering your power plant, factory, home, cell phone or
laptop, you can use clean energy technologies to do it. The countries that apply
these new technologies will have the real edge in the 21st century economy.
Solar technology is good for the electricity consumer by offering stable,
fuel-cost free, reliable power. It's good for the environment because there is
no pollution; and good for local economies because it produces jobs and growth
and can equalize national budgets as more-or-less all countries have equal
access to light and wind although not to fossil fuels.

It has been recently proposed to invest up to $100 billion on grid
improvements in the US. A better use of these funds would be to not invest in
the grids but to invest in providing power at the source of power requirements
in distributed solar and wind power plants on location at specific office
buildings, factories, malls, and homes. The leverage achieved with these bulk
purchases would help lower the front-end costs of these clean energy systems and
would not only produce usable electricity and lower our and other countries
trade deficits (the majority of most trade deficits is in purchase of fossil
fuels), but would also generate an income stream for U.S. and many other nations
companies as these systems qualify for a 1.5 cents/Kwh U.S. federal carbon tax
credit for U.S. companies and a similar tax rebate in many other countries. On a
multi megawatt basis this produces a revenue stream that would further decrease
the costs of these systems. In this scenario, you receive a savings which you
can think of as a check every month from your utility, for example.

Oregon State in the Northwest of the US is not only famous of its high tech
industries and for being home to companies like Intel, TriQuint, Radisys, or
InFocus, plus large consuming goods companies such as Nike or Columbia Sports,
but is the leading State in the nation in sustainable and energy saving
development. An Oregon solar and wind systems company, Solardyne Corporation (www.Solardyne.com),
is the leading solutions company offering advanced technology to effectively
turn the power of nature in sunlight and the wind into useful energy. Consumers
are waking to the arguments favoring this and company's sales jumped 3 fold
within 2 years which shows the potential in the use of solar and wind power in
industries and homes. Solardyne Founder and CEO, Toby Kinkaid, said in a recent
interview "that our company can allow every individual, office or company
to create a revolution by becoming their own power company and harnessing some
of the natural power of sunlight and the wind that we all take for
granted."

Mr. Kinkaid whose thinking moves at a rapid pace is already conceiving new
ways to better improve the technology he advocates and has eyed Thailand as his
headquarters in Asia for his company. Solardyne and Kinkaid have picked Thailand
because of its central location, the current governments acknowledged support
for a solar industry and the King's obvious example of the value of solar power
in demonstrating solar technology in many of his palaces and at many Royal
supported projects. Kinkaid and his Senior Engineer Mr. Wataru Okamura, EE who
also participated in the interview say "Asia with its higher energy costs,
need for development, sensitivity to nuclear power and lack of large power grids
can make quick and ready use of this new technology."

Kinkaid and Okamura have been joined by business veterans Dr. Brad Malsin and
Dr. Christopher Runckel and a young team of diverse specialists. This group is
generating its own energy and the company is moving the project along rapidly
and aggressively by reaching out to local academics and offering collaboration
in solar energy research, by planning for a soon to open company solar research
and development (R&D) center located in Thailand near Universities and other
key infrastructure and by initially reviewing resumes for a Thai national to
coordinate local research and to work with Kinkaid, Okamura and other Solardyne
researchers. With government and private sector support already at an advanced
state the project is well to becoming a reality. Because of this, Mr. Kinkaid is
confident that his advanced technology can help Thailand become "the center
of solar energy in Asia, if not soon the world".

All the world really needs is a power supply that has no fuel costs, no
pollution, and is available to everyone, everywhere, and relatively all at once.
There is a technology which makes this possible today. Perhaps the recent
blackout was really a blessing. After all, 50 Million electricity consumers in
the dark that night may have seen the light go on for their future.

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